I believe I'll pass on that ride.
Posted on 05/27/2021 4:55:01 PM PDT by Jonty30
Most eVTOL companies are thinking at air taxi scale, offering just 2-5 seats. Lilium is a notable exception, putting forth a whopping 7-seat "air minibus" design and prioritizing longer trips. But there are very few companies thinking at the kind of scale Kelekona's talking about.
This audacious New York City startup is thinking in terms of 40 passengers plus a pilot per flight – or an enormous 10,000 lb (4,540 kg) of cargo. And apparently long distances and high speeds, too, since the Kelekona website promises these VTOL sky buses will make the 330-mile (531 km) run between LA and San Francisco in just one hour.
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E-vehicles are the 21st century Ponzi scheme.
Everybody's focusing on the battery technology. Why don't they engineer quick-swap batteries? Run on the CHEP pallet model.
I believe I'll pass on that ride.
It probably can be done, but we dont have the energy density batteries needed, yet, and it probably needs to be a fusion of a hydrogen fuel cell recharging the batteries, and providing supplemental energy to the motors and systems.
It also probably wouldnt hurt to integrate high efficiency solar panels into the aircraft skin for secondary sources of recharge power and emergency systems power.
Turbines get more efficient the faster they go above 150 mph. Electric planes, do not.
Promises of 300 mile range/350 mph Electric planes are empty promises not based on reality.
Because you put electric fans in ducts and make them LOOK like turbines, doesn’t mean they act like turbines.
That looks something for the TeleTubbies.
The President of Pratt & Whitney once said “The power of an A380 at Take off could power the entire State of Connecticut.”
It may take a little more than some solar panels for this to work.
What is the point?
You could tap the hydrogen from the buoyancy cells. Great idea!
Did you actually read every part of what i posted?
By your response I am going to say no.
Exactly, we have the technology to do hydrogen right
I should have stopped reading at “Hydrogen Fuel Cells”
That demonstrated the lack of knowledge of the power required to make things fly.
Well bless your heart.
Like the old electric buses. A set of wires on poles that the bus flies over, while connecting to the wires below?
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